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TOURING ON ANGEL DUST | 05.09.1992 | Texas Stadium

On this day 23 years ago Faith No More were supporting Guns
N' Roses and Metallica in Dallas at the Texas Stadium.

Kerrang! | Issue 411 | 26.09.1992 | Chris Watts

FROM THE side of the stage you can smell Faith No More. You
can smell the heat and sweat, and it's only 4pm. When the sunshine hits this
enormous stage the temperature

peaks at around 115 degrees. As an alternative venue with
similar conditions on every level, Faith No More could just as well be playing
in Hell.

It is not the ideal environment. In fact, it is positively
ridiculous. 50,000 redneck juveniles are here to worship Axl, and Faith No More
are a mere irritation at best. The stadium is still filling up as Patton leaves
the stage in chaos amidst the dying blast of 'Epic' Some of the assholes are
jeering. Almost all are sitting down. Faith No More can claim it as a success.

Mike Patton remembers the girl down the front. She's right
there, squashed against the security railings, giving Patton the personal
thumbs-down. She laughs sarcastically when he crashes to the floor just inches
from her enormous tits during 'Caffeine' Patton has seen her and plays the
screeching spaz delinquent exclusively for the dumb bimbo. "Wasn't she
great?" he later comments. "Those are the people this band wants to
piss off!"

Middle America doesn't hate Faith No More so much as simply
not understand them. These days, the Metallica and Guns N' Roses audiences are
virtually identical, and despite the fact that Kirk Hammett stands just out of
sight behind Mike Bordin's drum kit during 'Midlife Crisis' and the hideous
'R.V.', this crowd will never comprehend the connection. They look at Jim
Martin and see a geeky, cartoon hero in a Stetson and shorts. They don't understand
that this is Jim's sole reason tor being here.

Faith No More are a blot on the landscape for this crowd.
'We Care A Lot' hits the first eight rows hard, but the momentum of this great
song doesn't reach much further. It is only really the MTV-rotated 'Epic' which
gets a reaction, and only then because it's familiar.

Typically, Patton drags the song into farce. He sings most
of it whilst lying on his back under a vocal monitor, capping the performance
by tumbling Bill Gould's bass amps. It's rubbish, absolute shit, but Faith No
More make their point.

The whole tour is a farce. Faith No More have been here to
lend at least a vestige of credibility to both Metallica and Guns N' Roses.
Faith No More have enjoyed and manipulated the farce at the expense of the
assholes. That in itself has been worth 30 bucks.